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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Dinosaur Live at BIMHUIS Amsterdam

by BIMHUIS
December 31, 2018

These four twenty-somethings have each established their own name in British jazz. The most prominent name in Dinosaur is trumpeter and composer Laura Jurd, who has previously been voted BBC New Generation Artist. The accessible synth pop of the 1980s is an important influence on the recent album Wonder Trail (Edition Records), on which she also ...

Album

Wonder Trail

By Laura Jurd

Label: Edition Records
Released: 2018
Track listing: Renewal (Part I); Quiet Thunder; Shine Your Light; Forgive, Forget; Old Times' Sake; Set Free; Swimming; Renewal (Part II); And Still We Wonder.

Article: In Pictures

Brighton Alternative Jazz Festival 2018

by John Sharpe
October 20, 2018

The third Brighton Alternative Jazz Festival took place over six separate days in October, but the undoubted centerpiece was the day long series of concerts held in St. Luke's Church on Saturday 13 October in front of a healthy-sized audience. Adventurous programming embraced a range of styles which taken together gave a well-rounded definition of what ...

Article: Live Review

Live From Birmingham: Dinosaur, Meatraffle, Hollywood Vampires, Black Asteroids & Paul Lamb

by Martin Longley
September 16, 2018

Dinosaur Hare & Hounds June 14, 2018 Tonite, for one nite only, this is the band called Dinoseb, or perhaps Polarsaur. For some mysterious reason, Dinosaur's regular sticksman Corrie Dick went missing, to be guest-starred by Seb Rochford, most famed for his own combo, Polar Bear. Even more shocking was ...

Article: Live Review

12 Points 2018

by Ian Patterson
September 14, 2018

12 Points 2018 The Sugar Club Dublin, Ireland September 5-8, 2018 Returning to its spiritual home of Dublin after back-to-back editions in San Sebastian and Aarhus, 12 Points 2018 marks one of the highpoints of the Irish musical year. Its appeal lies not just in the fact that it brings ...

Article: Live Review

Brilliant Corners 2018

by Ian Patterson
April 3, 2018

Brilliant Corners 2018 Black Box Belfast, N. Ireland March 3-10, 2018 Compared to Dublin or cities in the UK, Belfast is usually overlooked when jazz groups tour. When the likes of Wayne Shorter, Charles Lloyd, Ahmad Jamal, Keith Jarrett or Brad Mehldau come to Ireland it's usually a one-stop visit ...

Article: Interview

Laura Jurd: Big Footprints

by Ian Patterson
February 16, 2017

Every few years a band appears that injects a welcome shot of adrenaline into the jazz mainstream, exciting media, promoters and fans alike--the Neil Cowley Trio, Phronesis, GoGo Penguin and Snarky Puppy all spring to mind. Dinosaur, an English quartet led by trumpeter Laura Jurd, is being widely tipped to create such waves on the strength ...

Article: Album Review

Dinosaur: Together, As One

Read "Together, As One" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson
February 16, 2017

The debut album of the newly baptized Dinosaur--but the second album of the group formerly known as the Laura Jurd Quartet, following Landing Ground (Chaos Collective, 2012)--sees composer Jurd inspired by Miles Davis's late 1960s/early 1970s electric period. Though Jurd's trumpet, Elliot Galvin's Fender Rhodes/Hammond soundscapes and the persistent grooves plied by Conor Chaplin and Corrie ...

Album

Together, As One

By Laura Jurd

Label: Edition Records
Released: 2016
Track listing: Awakening; Robin; Living, Breathing; Underdog; Steadily Sinking; Extinct; Primordial; Interlude.

Article: Live Review

Live From Old York: Laura Jurd, Annie Whitehead, Brooks Williams & Koshka

by Martin Longley
December 23, 2016

Laura Jurd's Dinosaur National Centre For Early Music November 11, 2016 Dinosaur are one of the UK's fastest rising new bands, although their recent re-naming hides a few years of history as the Laura Jurd Quartet. The London foursome still look even younger than their actual ages, thus qualifying as ...